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title: I warn you solemnly to leave him alone and not to try and kill him. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I warn you solemnly to leave him alone and not to try and kill him. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 31

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I warn you solemnly to leave him alone and not to try and kill him.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** warn, leave, not try, kill · **To what, where:** you, Bullock

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:3:31
# text = I warn you solemnly to leave him alone and not to try and kill him.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | I |  | you |  |  | solemnly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Bullock |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **try** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Bullock |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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